Re: Hard drive upgrade for Yoga 2 13 (model 20344)

‎05-30-201512:09 PM - edited ‎05-30-201512:13 PM

Mischa213,

Thanks a lot, the explanation in your post was extremely helpful. I moved over to the Mac about 7 or 8 years ago and on their machines you really don't have many choices when it comes to things like this. I've not kept up with all of the different type of connectors and protocols that exist and are available on the windows side. I had no idea what a M.2 SSD was and centrally had no consciousness of a SFF-8784 connector.

Adding the picture was priceless, even after getting some understand of a M.2 connector I’m not sure if I would have realized where it was in this machine. THANK YOU!!!!!!

I was actually bummed to find out that I couldn’t repurpose my existing 2.5 inch SATA SSD in this machine. After doing some more research my outlook on the matter has changed. I’m going to take a slightly different approach. I going to get the Samsung 850 EVO 250 GB M.2 SSD (MZ-N5E250BW). Clone the existing drive to this drive but then take a backup image that I will use to get back to my current state if I have some kind of system failure. I normally do this anyway, I install all of the app I want and setup the machine the way I like and take an image that I use as my own version of a system restore. Next I’m going to format the original 500 GB drive and use it for extended storage or as a backup drive on the laptop. Since this is not my main machine I don’t think I’m going to have a ton of photos and videos so the 250 GB SSD will mostly likely be enough storage for my data to day work.

I still have to do some more research to confirm that the Samsung 850 EVO 250 GB M.2 SSD (MZ-N5E250BW) will play nicely with my Yoga but I'm happy that I do have the option having two drives in this machine. I would have gotten the Crucial drive but it has been discontinued and no longer for sale on Newegg or Crucial.com.

The following videos helped me give me a better understanding of mSATA, M.2, and the different sizes and protocols.https://youtu.be/Gx8fdVBs38E

Re: Hard drive upgrade for Yoga 2 13 (model 20344)

‎10-01-201510:09 AM

So I've noticed this thread has been inactive for quite sometimes but I hope I can get it active again... I recently saw some good deals on the M.2 SSD drives so I though I may upgrade my Yoga. Only to find out that most of the M.2 SSD drives in the market today have the two keys (notches), B-key and M-key. Open up my Yoga, I only see one notch in the slot. The M.2 SSD you guys mentions are all have 2 keys. So, how does it fit in the Yoga?

But I don't understand for me with the lenovo yoga2 13 128 GO SSD, after connecting the new 500go harddrive, I don't see any new harddrive in bios, nor in Windows. Is there something more to do than connecting the HDD ?

Re: Hard drive upgrade for Yoga 2 13 (model 20344)

Have the BB yoga 2 13 with 128 SSD (m.2) and wanted to utilize the HDD 'slot' populated with SSD.

I first tried to figure out how to use a regular 2.5 SSD but never could figure out a reasonable way to convert that to the plug on the MB. So, after much reading, shopping, etc. I found this adapter ...

Then found a 1TB samsung 850 evo msata drive on amazon for a price I couldn't refuse.

I'm very happy to report that this combination is working together perfectly. It's installed and I'm using the machine to post this. For now the whole thing is floating' and it seems to snug enough to keep everything in place so am using it as is for now. I might still get the cartridge for the hdd from lenovov so it can be anchored properly but for now it's good.

So, for a minimal outlay I have a device with a ton of storage that is still easy on the battery, reasonably cool running and quite fast.